This chapter is from the book

This chapter is from the book

Text is an important part of most websites, particularly informational or commercial sites. Flash allows you to have a lot
of control over the kind of text you can add to a document and of editing the property settings of the text. Text can be loaded
from a server or placed directly on the Stage. Kerning, character spacing, justification, color, and anti-aliasing of text
can all be controlled by setting properties in the workspace. Text is regularly used in Flash for creative, beautiful, and
traditional purposes. In fact, Flash allows you to create many textual effects that are not possible when using HTML or CSS
style sheets (Cascading Style Sheets).

In this lesson, you will add and format the properties of many text fields in Flash. You will learn how to add a Filter effect
to a static text field. You will also spell check the entire document before you finish the lesson. This lesson gives you
a foundation in the way text and fonts work and a good basis for using increasingly complex methods of working with text and
components in upcoming lessons.